Here is a post that reports that all is not happy for some with their heads in the clouds.
Is Amazon EC2 Oversubscribed and Suffering from Internal Network Latency?
I am not directly involved with this, but figured I’d raise it in the blog.
There have been various reports from the community of Amazon EC2 users, that [...]
In the next installment in its series of cloud computing infrastructure offerings, Amazon announced Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a cloud version of the popular MySQL database. Following the popular “pay-per-drink” model of EC2 and S3 for selling compute, storage and database access, Amazon RDS gives you a MySQL database that you can spin [...]
Is website speed critical to your business?
Consider: A study has shown that increasing response times by 500ms for Google reduced traffic by 20%. Response time increases of 100ms on Amazon decreased sales by 1%1! These are some pretty amazing figures.
The reason is probably that [...]
Akamai, a content delivery network (CDN), came out with its most recent State of the Internet report, detailing performance in Q1 2009. They do quite a bit of analysis so they usually release the report 4 or 5 months after the end of each quarter.
What is a Content Delivery Network (CDN)?
CDNs contract with website owners [...]
InfoWorld compiles its list of best open source software every year about this time. This is this year’s list. For some reason, likely tied to a misguided attempt to generate more page views, InfoWorld presents the list as a series of slides which load extremely slowly. In this post, I’ve pulled out all of the [...]
http://m.news.com/2166-12_3-10214663-2.html
Prior to this they have only supported Python, a language with a far more limited following. Here’s the rundown:
Supports JDK 1.6.
Free for limited use, no ability to pay for heavier use yet
Can access data behind the firewall through Secure Data Connect
Supports cron and data import ability
Uses BigTable (key/value pairs) for storage, so can’t use JDBC. [...]
Google launched a new project under Google Code where they are hosting the 5 popular javascript libraries for anyone to include in their site. The thinking is that by having a bunch of websites link against a common location for their javascript libraries the user’s browser can cache it once and use the cached copy, [...]
While researching platforms for hosting services I read a good deal about virtualization. For those of us who are mostly unfamiliar with the topic, virtualization, in short, is the abstraction of computing resources (which lends to the “cloud computing” concept). In more general use, it usually conjures up the idea that you can [...]
I was looking into Apache log rotation schemes and here’s what I came up with. Note that this is specifically for a Linux system.
- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/rotatelogs.html
This is the Apache docs for a program called ‘rotatelogs’ which comes with Apache. It replaces the default specification of the log file as a pipe to a rotatelogs [...]
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